Science! Putty Gobbles Up Magnet

Science is awesome. You don’t need to wear a lab coat and lug around a beaker to know that.

The awesomeness of science in action is proven once again with a video showing the incredible power of attraction. Magnetic putty swallows a magnet whole in a scene that looks like something out of a really slow-paced horror movie.

The clip is sped up to show the entire devouring in less than a minute, but the actual absorption took 90 minutes. According to the video’s description, the putty looks like plain Silly Putty, but it has been “infused with millions of micron-sized ferrous particles.” The result is a hungry chunk of grey matter hungry for magnetic victims.